Wednesday, May 29, 2013

May 29, 1953

Hillary & Norgay
on the way back down
from the summit.
Upon this day
Mr. Norgay
and Mr. Hillary,
back in '53,
climbed so high
under Asian sky
they passed the test
of Mount Everest.
They made their way
up the HimaLAY-as
and didn't fall
off the mighty HiMAL'ya,
two pitiful rhymes
as I'm out of time.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013

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